@Meddler-Repertoir As a 1k games Kass main, I disagree with these buffs and here is why.

Hey meddler-Repertoir. I know Kass threads are very rarely looked upon. But im asking you to read this and tell me what you think and if it is reasonable. I know the juggernaut update and reworks takes a lot of your time but im pleading for you to see this because i believe there is good solutions for an age long problem.

The day before champion.gg gathered all the data for patch 5.16.

Kassadin has a 42% win rate among plat+ and 46% among kass mains, He was close to be the very worst of dmg impact in a game. (43/47) At this moment: his win rate is 45% among plat+and 53% among kass mains.

Here is few issue with pre buff kass and issues with after buff kass.

1. His ult followed by his W was too hard to even proc.

His W currently has a very slow and VERY easy to cancel animation. Since his ult range is low and makes him vulnerable as he is in range of all adcs and mages to their aa's and abilities before he jumps in--He has a huge amount of clear weaknesses before he gets to apply his W proc. So in one way, he has to go in range and it puts him in a rough spot in team fights/poke wars etc... Hence giving a great amount of time for his enemies to know what are his intentions so that the target goes out of range and a tank/support puts himself in position for defense. Once in range, assuming he succeeded. His W animation is not only long to proc, but so easy to cancel that if the enemy was watching pornography while playing he would still have time to walk out of range of his W. In the case he Q+E, he has to stay an extra 1 second for his slow to do its work and then try to burst (and he couldnt burst 100-0 before) when facing a mobile adc--that adc usually exit that range and E slow timer and it means kassadin is in deep poop.

**2.**His overall dmg and base dmg.

His base dmg being nerfed to support level means he needed at least 4 kills AHEAD to even match the enemy's base dmg (assuming the enemy didnt buy any items yet) which he is technically unable to do (match their dmg)--assuming Riot wanted him weak early. He then needed to compensate this with his ratios and farming which prevent his roams.

Q+E at max level used to be 280 dmg. Its now 170. thats 220 dmg difference. With his current ratios--thats equivalent to 328 AP= A rabadons, ROA and void staff difference. (lets not forget that E is not always up in lane which increase that dmg gap)

Every mage has higher base dmg, a lot of them has better ratios. And AP assassins like LB-fizz-ekko has better base dmg than he does and ratios (and two of them has scaling MR.)

CONLUSION: His base dmg means it is too difficult for average players or non-mains to use to ever get to anything good. Even there, he was outmatched in his execution and overall dmg since his laning match ups had already 328 AP ahead at level 11 just with his base dmg. So it means that he needed buffs. But where?

here is what we asked for

1. Scaling MR: to effectively do what hes supposed to do. 2. Remove that W ratios and make it just proc for farming and mana refill. (or outright make it a passive aa ability) 2.B. Put all the W ratios to his R. (instead of W and R having ratios) 3. Increase his base dmg of Q+E to 220-240 at max level and see what happens.

here is what happened with the buffs and the effect it had

1. Mid game-late game dmg increase by +.2 to .6 ratio. That is equivalent to at 100 AP: +20-60 dmg. At 700 AP: +140-420 dmg So we can see it doesnt do much early, keeping his early problems still there, but giving him a massive spike mid late game.

1.5 (compared to Live kassadin in previous point 1) My suggestions is at 100 AP: +130 dmg. At 700 AP: - 420 to -190 dmg. (still a buff to pre buff kassadin)

(P.S: i believe he should be weak early. But that doesnt mean there isnt any issues with him early atm)

2. Those who mains him knows how to get ahead--taking advantage of that increase.

It creates a binary situation--you win lane (less likely) or you lose and probably dont come back. But for those that usually win lane and barely win the game: they now have a great tool to win.

Now im not saying he should lose games but im saying that this change benefits mainly his mains.

What should be done?

The change ive proposed--that kass mains proposed does these things:

1. Reinforcing his identity and make him relevant versus stronger mages and AP assassins who do have MR scaling. 2. base dmg means the average or new players can trade and be relevant mid games even if they lose their lane. 3 removing his W scaling and puting it straight to R means his mains and regular players alike can practice his rift-step hobby without the huge W hassle and without having that much extra dmg on tap (while keeping his pre 6 weak since he cant access to that dmg)

So we have a win-win situation.

P.S: I have dyslexia and im not an english born speaker so this was difficult to write.

Final thoughts: You also have a buff in MR items and health options. I think it is possible to make Kassadin both decent for lower elo, average users of the champ, and mains.

I think its a fair trade to buff his base dmg, without adding to his mid game-late game power (which the latter is stronger in numbers on live compared to what i propose)

That is why i think his current buffs only benefits a very strong minority without adressing the true problems.

So essentially removing the live buffs and changing them to what is proposed. gradually.

Thank you for reading :)